This week Samantha compares the novel and movie versions of A Summer Place . The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit is a book heralded for...

"My sister Eileen and I, movie fans when we were five and six, respectively, would have scorned Mickey Mouse in our youth; we preferred...

In this bonus blog, Samantha compares the novel and the film versions of The Lost Weekend by Charles R. Jackson, the Academy Award winner...

Forever Amber by Kathleen Winsor is a sweeping novel that follows the exploits of a young girl who grew up on a farm but dreamed of...

Civilians become spies for the Allies in this thriller adapted from a best-selling novel to the silver screen. Helen MacInnes's Above...

In 1918, Eleanor H. Porter published a novel titled Oh, Money! Money!, a light comedy about the influence of inherited money on the...

Lillian Roth was once a rising star, a singer with a powerful brassy voice and a charming dimpled smile that seemed destined for great...